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[Thomas Okken]

(01-14-2020 07:46 PM)rprosperi Wrote:  As for rotten tomatoes, while useful for some things, it is hugely biased and you need to consider that before evaluating anything that they list. Though it's not that the age of movie goers has changed so much, it is the age of folks that put ratings into places like rotten tomatoes that causes the bias. Does anyone here spend time entering their opinion about movies?

It's not exactly a new phenomenon that young and old people have a different outlook, broadly speaking. Hang out with lots of over-50s and you get pretty one-sided opinions as well. The fact that their bias is different from that of a group of teenagers doesn't mean that there's no bias there.

What over-50 even looks at Rotten Tomatoes in the first place, anyway? Do we need outside validation for our tastes or something? I thought that one of the nicer things about getting older is getting over such neuroses.